Guitar player, composer and singer.
Liuba María Hevia was born on December 14, 1964. She is a self-taught artist who began her artistic career by accompanying her songs with a guitar until 1990 when she founded her own group made up by young graduates from different schools of art in the country.
She is considered one of the most outstanding composers and vocalists of the young generation of Cuban musicians. Liuba María Hevia has achieved pristine personal profiles that have turned her into the main representative of the combination of modernity and tradition for she has opened the folkloric and popular frontiers to new sonorous and expressive worlds. Therefore, she has been placed among the highest exponents of Cuban culture today.
As the Cuban musicologist María Teresa Linares has said, Liuba María Hevia develops her work within the framework of an "urban song with country music elements, a troubadour-style song with rhythmic and harmonic elements closely a
ttached to the country folklore".
During her artistic career, Liuba María Hevia has participated in important national and international festivals, namely:
1984, Cuba-Nicaragua Festival (Nicaragua).
1986, L`Humanité Newspaper Festival (Paris, France).
1991, 1st Ibero-American Festival of the Decima (Havana, Cuba).
1991, Radio Educación Nacional Festival (Mexico, D.F.).
1993, Ibero-American Festival of the Decima and "Cucalambé" Day (Las Tunas, Cuba).
1993, Cuba-Venezuela Festival (Caracas, Venezuela).
1993, "Cantándole al sol" Children's Song Festival (Havana, Cuba).
1994, Festival of Habaneras (Havana, Cuba).
1994, "De país en país" Festival Meeting (Medellín, Colombia).
1995, 17th International Festival "Los Sabandeños" (La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain).
1995, 20th International Festival of Habaneras (La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain).
1995, International Festival of Habaneras (Havana, Cuba).
1995, "Cantándole al sol" Children's Song Festival (Havana, Cuba).
1997, Cuban and Flemish Son Festival (Sevilla, Spain).
1998, Winter Festival La Paz - Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Her most important awards include:
"Abril" Contest Annual Award, Havana, 1989, 1991, 1992.
"En Onda con la Alegría" Contest Award, Havana, 1995.
Composition award at the Festival of Habaneras, Habana, 1997.
Unique Award granted by the National Museum of Music, Festival of Habaneras, Havana, 1997.
Unique Award granted by Radio Cubana for "Ausencia", Havana, 1997.
Special Award, Children's Music Record, Cubadisco, Havana, 1998.
